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desegregation

[ dee-seg-ri-gey-shuhn, dee-seg- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which people from different religions, ancestries, ethnic groups, etc., are restricted to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, or the like.

First recorded in 1950–55; de- + segregation

In the 1970s, conservatives who had lost the moral battle on civil rights demanded exemptions to desegregation.

The act even gave the federal government new power to enforce school desegregation through the aid to education it provided.

Surely the Goldwater debacle had demonstrated a severe shortage of ducks in the anti-desegregation ranks?

Some on the far right may sincerely believe their liberties are being threatened, but they believed that about desegregation too.

Strom responded by writing the first draft of the “Southern Manifesto,” pledging “massive resistance” to desegregation.

The second question of usage concerns the words integration and desegregation.

The local commander also arranged for the desegregation of some off-base social facilities in a effort to improve black morale.

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